Bug 70499 - FILEOPEN Cannot select unprotected cells in XSLX sheet with worksheet protection
Summary: FILEOPEN Cannot select unprotected cells in XSLX sheet with worksheet protection
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.0.6.2 release
Hardware: All All
: highest major
Assignee: Noel Power
URL:
Whiteboard: target:4.3.0 target:4.2.0.0.beta2 tar...
Keywords: bibisected, regression
Depends on:
Blocks: mab4.1
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Reported: 2013-10-15 16:09 UTC by Liam Brennan
Modified: 2015-12-15 22:21 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

See Also:
Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
Spreadsheet showing problem (8.56 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet)
2013-10-15 16:09 UTC, Liam Brennan
Details

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Description Liam Brennan 2013-10-15 16:09:44 UTC
Created attachment 87673 [details]
Spreadsheet showing problem

When a protected [No Password]excel (2007) worksheet having unprotected cells is saved as xslx and opened in LibreOffice 4.1.2.3 it is not possible to select the unprotected cells or to make any changes to protected cells.

The problem does not arise in 4.0.3 or if the worksheet is saved as xls.


How to recreate problem

Create sheet in excel 2007 range d4:g9 formatted as unprotected and rest of cells protected. Fill with yellow to make it clear which cells are unprotected.
Save sheet as xslx.
Open sheet in LibreOffice 4.1.2 as released.
try and select yellow (unprotected) cell - not possible.
Select protected cell - it is possible, though it should not be since protection set to allow selection of unprotected cells and not of protected cells.

Workaround
None identified.
Comment 1 ign_christian 2013-11-12 02:15:56 UTC
Confirm reproducible with LO 4.0.6.2 (Win7 32bit). Perhaps related to fix in Bug 64753.
Comment 2 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2013-11-20 06:19:24 UTC
I am also affected by this in 4.1.2.3 on Ubuntu 13.10.
This is extremely disruptive as a lot of forms come as partially protected xlsx documents.

I confirm it with two different spreadsheets I got from two different suppliers, as well as with the first attachment in this bug.

Here is a related question in AskLibreOffice:
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/21430/partially-protected-excel-spreadsheets-import-completely-protected/
Comment 3 Joel Madero 2013-11-20 07:02:39 UTC
quite nasty - updating some info + bibisected
 de07cd3f6a04dff5ba9658ed605a714f04cca8be is the first bad commit
commit de07cd3f6a04dff5ba9658ed605a714f04cca8be
Author: Bjoern Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 17 21:37:45 2013 +0000

    source-hash-7e07a45500dcbb891a85f0bc9b7049cf4d50bba1
    
    commit 7e07a45500dcbb891a85f0bc9b7049cf4d50bba1
    Author:     Artur Dryomov <artur.dryomov@gmail.com>
    AuthorDate: Thu Aug 1 19:44:47 2013 +0300
    Commit:     Artur Dryomov <artur.dryomov@gmail.com>
    CommitDate: Thu Aug 1 19:47:07 2013 +0300
    
        Change search timeouts from milliseconds to seconds.
    
        Makes things readable and should prevent potential typing bugs.
    
        Change-Id: Ifcb90568859e94896f5c2a313546fe1fdd6fa4bc

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Comment 4 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2013-11-21 00:38:56 UTC
I can confirm that this is not present in 4.0.5.2

I had to downgrade to this version to be able to fill in forms.

Anyone needing to do that: http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/4.0.5.2/deb/
Comment 5 Noel Power 2013-11-21 14:33:40 UTC
I'll take a quick look
Comment 6 Markus Mohrhard 2013-11-24 17:00:33 UTC
That is already fixed in master.
Comment 7 Markus Mohrhard 2013-11-24 17:01:17 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 70315 ***
Comment 8 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2013-11-24 22:25:03 UTC
Brilliant, thanks everyone :)
Comment 9 Noel Power 2013-11-25 11:18:00 UTC
this is NOT a duplicate bug# 70315
Comment 10 Commit Notification 2013-11-25 11:18:16 UTC
Noel Power committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5728a56b20e01d6c9e86a23f20af64a1b68ad604

fdo#70499 selectn of lock/unlocked cells with worksheet protection reversed



The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds
Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 11 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2013-11-26 00:18:00 UTC
Noel, is this going to be in 4.1.4, or does the whiteboard target mean that it is only going to be a fix available in 4.3? (to be released in July 2014!)
Comment 12 Joel Madero 2013-11-26 01:02:32 UTC
Until it's marked as FIXED it means that we're still working on it :) The target just means that it's been committed to 4.3 already, but it'll need additional testing to make it into other releases.
Comment 13 Commit Notification 2013-11-27 23:32:20 UTC
Noel Power committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-2":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=bf35ce3f91c8ee3f06a7a6c7a10dd17f05198ce5&h=libreoffice-4-2

fdo#70499 selectn of lock/unlocked cells with worksheet protection reversed


It will be available in LibreOffice 4.2.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds
Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 14 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2013-11-28 01:10:03 UTC
Thanks Noel for this.
Is this too heavy/risky to include in the 4.1 cycle?
As I said, it is a pretty serious flaw that administrations and businesses will suffer from (in the form-filling case). They would need to wait for a stable enough version of 4.2, and that would not be an option for some. (4.2.3 is supposed to be out in May 2014!)
Comment 15 Commit Notification 2013-12-13 16:09:24 UTC
Noel Power committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-1":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ed0f9df37cac6c2e8d886488b2dbbe1034e0d385&h=libreoffice-4-1

fdo#70499 selectn of lock/unlocked cells with worksheet protection reversed


It will be available in LibreOffice 4.1.5.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds
Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 16 Kohei Yoshida 2013-12-13 16:10:15 UTC
Backported to 4.1.x.  I call it fixed.
Comment 17 Ryan K 2014-01-24 14:20:33 UTC
I am still experiencing this bug in LibO 4.1.3.2 (official Ubuntu 13.10 version). Has the patch been backported to this version?
Comment 18 Ryan K 2014-01-24 14:33:22 UTC
...also on 4.1.4.2 from the Libreoffice PPA
Comment 19 retired 2014-01-24 15:05:47 UTC
I see "It will be available in LibreOffice 4.1.5." so please wait or try http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/
Comment 20 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2014-01-24 15:06:32 UTC
I just tested this with 4.1.5 RC1 and it is fixed.
4.1.5 final is supposed to be released in the week Feb 3, 2014 - Feb 9, 2014.
It is also apparently fixed in 4.2.0, which should be out in the week Jan 27, 2014 - Feb 2, 2014, athough you might want to opt for the more stable option (4.1.5).
Comment 21 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2014-01-24 15:09:10 UTC
If you can't wait, here are the pre-releases:
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/
Comment 22 Joel Madero 2014-01-24 15:10:57 UTC
IMHO unless you are working on a work machine or something - no reason why you can't use 4.2.0 rc as it's stable, I've been using it since rc1 and it's stable for me to use for daily use
Comment 23 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2014-01-24 15:23:22 UTC
Hi Joel

It's probably not the best place to discuss this, but I gave this recommendation as it is not uncommon to see bugs like the one described here take quite a bit of time to get fixed (fifth bugfix version for this one).
In my case, this particular bug is a show-stopper as it would not let me fill in a simple business or admin form.
From my experience, I just expect to see a few MAB showing up with 4.2.0 that would make it just a bit annoying to use for some people, depending on what their needs are.
Might be a language issue though: I said "stable", but maybe I should have used another term - I did not mean that I expected 4.2.0 to keep crashing on us :)

Cheers
Comment 24 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-12-15 22:21:06 UTC
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (bibisected)
Remove redundant 'ConfirmedRegression'
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